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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
- Pythagoras
(582 BC - 507 BC)
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ZIN Product Number: 10029566
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 Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0151005389
Release Date: Jan 6, 1999
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"A work of art, whether a painting, a dance, a poem, or a jazz composition, can be admired in its own right. But how does the artist actually create his or her work? What is the source of an artist's inspiration? What is the force that impels the artist to set down a vision that becomes art?" "In this book, poet and critic Edward Hirsch explores the concept of duende, that mysterious, highly potent power of creativity that results in a work of art. It has been said that Laurence Olivier had it, and so did Ernest Hemingway, but Maurice Evans and John O'Hara did not. Marlon Brando had it but squandered it. Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith had it, and so did Miles Davis." From Federico Garcia Lorca's wrestling with darkness as he discovered the fountain of words within himself to Martha Graham's creation of her most emotional dances, from the canvases of Robert Motherwell to William Blake's celestial visions, Hirsch taps into the artistic imagination and explains, in terms illuminating and emotional, how different artists respond to the power and demonic energy of creative impulse.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | | | Only Mystery | 1 | | Invoking the Duende | 3 | | Poetic Fact | 5 | | A Mysterious Power | 8 | | The Hidden Spirit of Disconsolate Spain | 13 | | An Apprenticeship | 19 | | Between Eros and Thanatos | 29 | | The Majesty of the Incomprehensible | 35 | | A Spectacular Meteor | 39 | | Swooping In | 45 | | Ardent Struggle, Endless Vigil | 49 | | The Black Paintings | 55 | | The Intermediary | 58 | | Yeats's Daimon | 65 | | Ars Poetica? | 72 | | A Passionate Ingredient | 76 | | The Yearning Cry of a Shade | 80 | | I Sing You, Wild Chasm | 85 | | Night Work | 91 | | Vegetable Life, Airy Spirit | 96 | | A Person Must Control His Thoughts in a Dream | 101 | | The Angelic World | 109 | | The Story of Jacob's Wrestling with an Angel | 118 | | Concerning the Angels | 126 | | The Rilkean Angel | 132 | | Angel, Still Groping | 141 | | The New Angel | 147 | | Three American Angels | 152 | | Demon or Bird! | 157 | | Between Two Contending Forces | 162 | | The Sublime Is Now | 166 | | In the Painting | 171 | | Paint It Black | 178 | | Motherwell's Black | 184 | | Deaths and Entrances | 191 | | Ancient Music and Fresh Forms | 196 | | America Heard in Rhythm | 202 | | Hey, I'm American, So I Played It | 207 | | Fending Off the Duende | 213 | | The Existentialist Flatfoot Floogie | 220 | | Poet in New York | 222 | | Where Is the Angel? Where Is the Duende? | 229 | | Notes | 231 | | Reading List: The Pleasure of the Text | 279 | | Acknowledgments | 303 | | Permissions Acknowledgments | 304 | | Index | 309 |
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